Bankrupt - Pullmantur Cruises
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In the mid 1990's a travel company based in Spain was seeking an ambitious goal. They wanted to be the leader in Spanish speaking cruises, sailing ships all around the Mediterranean, Mexico, Caribbean and South America. They ultimately succeeded and got the interest and investment from Royal Caribbean, the mega American cruise company. But despite all of their success, the company declared bankruptcy in 2020 and was completely liquidated. Join me today as I find out why!
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It's always a good day when Bright Sun Films talks about ships 😁
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Yea I would have to agree I even watch all his old videos when there is no new one
I used to work on board Pullmantur cruises as a receptionist from 2018 until 2020. I was on board during the global shutdown due to the pandemic. I vividly remember being part of the video you show and it feels like yesterday.
Like you mentioned, employee morale was kept high because of all the crew that was stuck at sea with their home countries borders closed and waiting to be repatriated. Slowly our food was running low because there were limited ports that wanted to take us just to receive supplies of food or fresh water. Tough times and I appreciate you taking the time to discuss about Pullmantur and its crew.
Luckily now I am working in a different cruise line and I am happy
Boy, this one really tugged at my heartstrings - we sailed with them in the summer of 2015, 2016 and 2018 out of Barcelona. While the ships themselves weren’t great, the crew was wonderful.
Please find someone else to do the narration with a less dull and monotone voice. My God this like audio Valium.
How many times did you engage in man on man love?
As I Spaniard, I have to say it was the best cruise line for Spanish/Portuguese speaking guests. Everything from the food to the entertainment was Taylor made for us and it was way more fun than any other American cruise line, even with the older cruise ships…
Let’s just say the best things for others are never the most profitable. America wins as usual. 🤣🇺🇸
Spanish and Portuguese people are fun, American ones aren't. That's why European companies (Costa, MSC, Aida) seem better than American ones.
@@patricec.2957Costa and MSC are pretty bad
@@Labyrinth6000except when it comes to Afghanistan
@@Labyrinth6000 shhhhhhh
Monarch holds a special place in my heart. I sailed her well over a dozen times from Florida. She was once the largest cruise ship sailing! Thanks for another great video!
Wendover has Airplanes, Jake has Cruise Ships 😂
and shopping malls
Mustard has planes.
The saddest part of it all to me is what happened to those ships the line owned. They may no longer have been frontline ships but they were still attractive vessels with a lot of life left in them under other circumstances.
I agree, they could have been bought for probably a few million dollars, but b/c this all happened during the middle or early reocvery from the pandemic, no one wanted to take a chance on them.
5:40 "Capitalizing on the spanish speaking populations of Columbia, Panama and Brazil..." There might be something of on that sentence 😅
The three Carnival ships were Fantasy class. The company ended up scrapping 6 of 8 ships in the class. The 2 ships that were saved were built with Azipods instead of traditional propellers and rudder.
That had a lot to do with the scrapping of many cruise ships in the last 5 years. Those Azipods are just so much more efficient that it made more sense to get rid of the old style propulsion system. The same thing happened at the end of the 90s with the bankruptcy of Premier and the end of steam turbine technology for use in passenger ships..
@ashleighelizabeth5916 what exactly is the azipod system? Engineering isn't my field.
@@Denozo88 think of an Azipod (or azimuth thruster) as a giant electric outboard motor. A standard ship propulsion system is usually like this: engine->gearbox->shaft->propeller
Meanwhile a ship with Azipods (azimuth thrusters) is like this: Engine->electric systems->electric motor->propeller
Azipods (azimuth thruster) have a few advantages:
1. Less space needed for mechanical components
2. 360 degrees of rotation which allows more precise movement of the ship
*Azipod is a brand of azimuth thruster.
@@Denozo88 what he said. ^^^^
Sovereign of the Seas was the first RC ship I ever went on. Went on Majesty of the Seas as well which was its sister. They were great ships. Easily could be sailing today with some updates.
Another great video Jake!
Me too!! I still remember everything, every single detail, I had the opportunity to travel again on Sovereign in 2014 and it was just as amazing (I still have the room key and card, and I do not regret "stealing" it 😂), I'll miss traveling with them.
Went on a Caribbean cruise on the Monarch in Oct 2019. It was a good experience and we had a lot of fun. Sad to have seen the Monarch taken to a junkyard in summer 2020
My family and I went on a Pullmantur cruise about a decade ago and had a really great time. My mom found cheap tickets so we flew to Florence and sailed out of Revenna and visited Venice, Dubrovnik, some Greek islands, and Athens. It was a lot of fun but we were a few of maybe a dozen English-speaking guests on the entire boat which was pretty hilarious. We spent most of the time in the casino because all of the dealers spoke English so we could have someone to talk to 😂😂
yeah i would much rather have that, compared to a cruise with just people from my own country, or like where everyone speaks english, that would just be boring to me!
Been in a cruise with them in Brazil, in 2019, on MS Sovereign! Such a fine ship, was in immaculate conditions and had such a history. Was not a bad experience, for the price paid and the “all inclusive” part of the cruise.
That was bittersweet for me. The last vacation I took with my fiancée before breast cancer took her out, was a cruise on Monarch of the Seas. That was a beautifully designed ship. I think that model of cruise ship was much nicer looking than what they build since. Monarch was about 15-20 years old in 2006. So, making it to 2020 before being scrapped is sad to see, but as cruise ships go 30+ years is a long life, and now I know what when and where my beloved ship met its end. Sad, but adding some additional closure for me. Thanks Jake.
The Sovereign and the Monarch were my favorite ships ever. I love love LOVE their designs! Seeing the Sovereign and Monarch scrapped is like seeing the Olympic and Mauretania scrapped back in the mid 1930s.
Can’t wait for “Bankrupt: TelevisaUnivision” soon
The first cruise I ever went on was royal Caribbean’s sovereign of the seas. She was transferred to pullmantur shortly after. It was sad to see it destroyed in 2020. Since then I’ve been on 3 more cruises. We love them!
Fun fact; whilst Pullmantur Cruises collapsed spectacularly, Pullmantur Air still operates today as Wamos Air. How’d they survive? The same way most passenger airways did; during lockdown, they gutted the seats, put them in storage and replaced it with packing space so they’d temporarily become a cargo airline.
My first cruise was on Sovereign of the Seas in 2006! Hate that it’s been scrapped.
Great video as always. One small detail is that Brazil is definitely not Spanish speaking. We speak portuguese 😅
5:40 "To Caribbean and South America too, capitalizing on the Spanish speaking population of Colombia, Panama and Brazil".
Yeah, we don't speak Spanish in Brazil
There is a Spanish-speaking population there, however. It’s hard to avoid when you’re surrounded by Spanish-speaking countries. The United States is an English-speaking country, but we have millions of Spanish speakers living here.
There are some Spanish speakers. But definitely not enough to make a dent on the cruise market. They definitely focused on Portuguese speakers in Brazil.
The number of Spanish speakers in the US is orders of magnitude bigger then in Brazil.
He said "Populations" not "Countries"
Jake, would be super cool to see a video from you where you document the beginning of COVID through cruises sailing again, a look at the whole industry. Cruise lines were sort of ground zero
Correction: Neither Empress (of the Seas) nor Holiday Dream (today Blue Sapphire) have been sold for scrap. Horizon wasn’t scrapped in Alang but in Aliaga, too.
These ships/cruise lines videos are by far the best imo. Sad these guys couldn't survive, by all acounts passengers seem to have loved this fleet
I had THE BEST times on board Pullmantur cruises, my graduation trip when we finished high school was on MS Sovereign, I've been on it twice and on Zenith once, here in Brasil they were very famous, I've been in MSC cruises and they are beautiful, but Pullmantour and the whole staff was 10/10, I will miss traveling on board with them!
2:35 worth noting that the Pacific was one arguably the most famous "Cruise Ship" in the world (at least until the Costa Concordia) when it was the star of the TV Series The Love Boat as the Pacific Princess
Breaker Yards are such depressing sights. I'm a bit of a Pan Am buff (even though I was an elementary school student when they met their demise), so seeing pictures of the Clippers being dismantled still gets me.
To see perfectly serviceable cruisers scrapped bothers me in a different way. Breaking those seems like implodingpotentiall affordable housing. Dry dock them, do some conversion and get senior citizens and little kids off the streets. I know it's more complex than that, but it sounds good in theory.
Yeah destroying perfectly good ships breaks my heart too.
As a Brazilian, it is very sad to see a company that frequented Brazilian beaches a lot, like in Balneário Camboriú, almost every time it went there on any given day, there was a Pullmantur ship docked in the cruise area.
As an enthusiast and big fan of the shipping industry, those ships with paintings as dark blue as the sea, with that observation dome near the funnel, when I saw that giant ship, with the writing "Sovereign" or "Monarch" on the bow, I was enchanted by the beauty of these sea monsters, for me this is incredible.
When I found out that Pullmantur went bankrupt, I was in shock, it was as if an era of cruises visiting Brazil had ended. I researched everything about what had happened, but no relevant information was found.
But while I was looking for why the company went bankrupt, I found a photo of two Pullmantur ships, on a beach, stuck in the sand, waiting for the time to be demolished, that broke my heart.
When I saw the thumbnail of this video, I got goosebumps, remembering when this company, which was very famous in Brazil, went bankrupt.
Brought a tear to my eye when I saw the monarch of the sea or monarch, rotting away. That was my favorite cruise line growing up.
We cruised on the then Celebrity, Horizon or Zenith in April 2001, from
Manhattan, to Bermuda, just about 6
months before 9/11, which were in
a photo as we left NYC harbor. 😢
I got to sail on the Oceanic in 1991 when I was 9 years old. It was owned by Premier Cruise Line, promoted as the Big Red Boat official Cruise of Disney . We sailed from Port Canaveral to Nassau Bahamas. I had a blast. I have old camcorder footage I made walking through the whole ship, going to the buffet, ice cream shop (all you could eat) and even a bridge tour. I should convert and upload it.
Funny enough I worked at Pullmantur back in 2017. Watching the images from the office brought back so many memmories. Thank you for the video!
This new into (I haven‘t watched in 1 year) is dope
They had good taste picking up the old but still glorious Oceanic, one of my favorite ships.
I really hate that ship wasn't saved. I saw her in New York in 1985 when I was sailing to Bermuda with RCCL (actually she sailed in tandem with us on the way to Bermuda). She was such a beautiful classic ship. She actually was used by Peace Boat for her last three years and the end of Pullmantur didn't have anything to do with her scrapping.
Ah, a new episode of Bankrupt just in time for my birthday!
Happy birthday Kathryn!!
Thank you for making a video about Pullmantur Cruises! My only two cruises were with them in brazilian waters and I have so many cherised memories from them!! ❤
Man you have to wonder how many companies couldn’t survive the pandemic.
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@@kimgordon3695elaborate please?
It wasn’t the pandemic it was the government’s response to the pandemic
The Cruise industry took a hit due to less people booking cruises during the pandemic
Pandemic is the new "and then the recession hit"
I was interested to hear you mention Azamara-I don’t think I remember you ever talking about them before! I worked on costumes for one of their onboard shows in 2019, and I remember that out of all our cruise ship contracts we were using the most expensive materials for theirs, including huge numbers of Swarovski rhinestones ($$$$). Ever since I’ve had a massive curiosity for what their cruises are like and I’d love to see you give it the Bright Sun Travels treatment if you ever decide to go one one of their cruises.
I remember seen one of Pullmantur ships the Horizon been docked in Port of Souda Greece before covid!Mostly during the winter and summer of 2018-19
Jake thanks for a great start to my weekend! Your the best!
My pleasure!!
The Big red boat! I remember going in it when I was a kid! Have a whole bunch of photos in boxes from the trip.
I took two cruises on Pullmantur and thoroughly enjoyed them.
As a long time cruiser I can’t stand the insane giant ships,yes I tried one and got lost so many times
I was working at RCI during the Sovereign class roll out of all three Sovereign ships, Sovereign, Majesty and Monarch. At the time, some of the biggest ships afloat. I was sad to see them run up on shore and broken up for scrap. I sailed on Majesty. I loved that ship. The Sovereign as well. I would have lunch aboard on weekends when she turned around, because I worked at Port Miami and we could walk across the island and go aboard and eat lunch !! I was also aboard almost all of the Fantasy Class Ships of Carnival when introduced. So many scrapped vessels.
Reminds me of the 2009 song so far from the Clyde from Mark Knopfler. It is a very sad song about the tearing apart and recycling of ships. Presented in an emotional point of view from those who love ships. And I am reminded of that song as I look at these ships being gutted. It’s sad.
Little correction on the pronounciation of Oceania cruises that was mentioned at the end (as I traveled myself withthis line and exactly on this ship class), even tho it is spelled Oceania, it is pronounced Oceana (there is some legal thing so they couldn't name it just Oceana but yeah qwq)
My first cruise as an 18 year old kid was on the Sovereign of the Seas in 1991 out of Miami to the Caribbean and I LOVED it.
Been cruising on RC and Carnival ships ever since.
This series is super educational and I really enjoy watching them!
Good Video!
Thanks!
One bankrupt video I’d be interested in is Rite Aid- sounds like they’ve in decline for years, and they’ve been closing stores and selling them off to Walgreens for a while too. Sounds like bankrupt could be imminent for them.
If you do make sure you include their 1996 Acquisition of regional drug store chain Thrifty Drug and the Thrifty Ice Cream brand that survives to this day (and hopefully past Rite-Aids demise) as probably the last Drug Store Ice Cream counters in the U.S.
might get one soon since they have now officially filed Chapter 11. Walgreens and CVS are also doing really poorly.
While i now longer work for a cruise line i still cruise and its alwags nice seeing ships i recognise in port. Recently was on cruises and bumped into 2 R class ships including Quest ( formerly of pullmantur)
The Pacific Princess? TV's original Love Boat? Burying the lead a little!
The ship on the thumb nail was the monarch of the Seas.
2:37 🎵The Love Boat soon will be making another run, The Love Boat promises something for everyone...🎶
Always good content on Bright Sun Films
I work in the cruise industry and I love your videos! Hope to never see my company in this series :)
Some beautiful looking boats...
The actual ad that I had to watch was for another cruise line.
My laptop is becoming self-aware.
Another great video Jake, AS ALWAYS. I love your videos!
“Pullmantur was both a success and a failure.”
I feel you, Pullmantur
Here to support
@5:46, you mentioned the 'spanish speaking markets of columbia, panama, and brazil'. brazil is a PORTUGUESE speaking country.
Hey Jake, maybe someday for a new bankrupt video.. can you do Atari or Polaroid. Itll be amazing to hear from you from your own research, reading, and perspective. Anyway keep it up, Jake.
Always fun to see a cruiseline go under
Yes I forget about pullmantor! I thought Royal would save them but they did not. Great Video!
I was on Sovereign of the Seas in 1998 as a kid. Sad to see it scrapped. I just did my first cruise since then on Serenade of the Seas and had a great time last month.
I was on the Sovereign of The Seas when it was owned by RC. It was relatively new at the time and a very nice ship for the time.
Yes! More ship videos please!
Holy crap man, that intro was amazing.
indeed man
I went on monarch of the seas in 2012 before it got sold to Pullmantur I am sad to see her be scrapped
As always so well done and interesting Jake. My family are all fans 💯
Thank you for the video.
Great job doing a video on this Cruise line. I'd love to see you do one on the rise and fall of CMV (Cruise and Maritime Voyages) too as it sailed in both the UK and Australia
Majesty of the Seas was my first cruise, sad it's gone now.
I hope that Bright Sun Films hopefully can do episode of Bankrupt regarding the Force India Formula 1 Team.
I remember seeing a pullmanteur ship in aruba. My mother got a photo of me in front of it
When will you film yourself exploring an abandoned cruise ship (if you haven’t already)
Man would I love to do that…
@@BrightSunFilms shocking that you havent already lol
When will you film yourself exploring food and water?
I always look forward to these hi jake
The gym looks good, from the picture I can see it has a proper bench press.
Hey Pullmantur ships used to come around here on Curacao. To me they all came across as “normalish” specially when you are used to see the behemoths of Royal Caribbean
In my fictional world, this ship never bankrupt and still successful
Btw, pullmantur started as a bus operator
I just found this channel recently and I love your videos and content.
They speak Portuguese in Brazil, not Spanish.
Some people there speak Spanish. Just like United States is an English-speaking country, but we have millions of Spanish speakers living here.
I've always loved ur videos they're so interesting 😭😭
oh! I've cruised on the RC Sovereign of the Seas!
I really wanted to try Pullmantur as I live in Spain. What a shame.....
They put up CZcams video of a handful of their staff singing "I'll surrive."
Ironic
Sad to see as my first ever cruise was on Sovereign of the Seas. Thanks for the content.
Love this channel! Been
Here since day one!!! First
Great video, as always 😊
You should do a video on the Penn Central bankruptcy! It was the largest corporate bankruptcy in US history at the time
My grandparents sailed on a ship and mid way into the cruise after a bunch of disasters the cruise line went bankrupt and just stranded everyone in south america and people had to pay out of pocket to get home.
How long will Rite Aid be apart of your Bankrupt series… That took me by Surprise the other day! Did the Airline ever go away too or did someone else take that Company!
Sad what premeirs big red boat went through i miss premeir cruise
I went on one of those Carnival ships that wound up beached in Turkey for it's last sailing. Very surreal feeling being on a giant ship out at sea all the while knowing a bunch of guys with cutting torches will be hacking it to pieces a short time later.
great video man keep up the good work 😃
You should do a Cancelled episode about the Carolina Panthers Practice Facility in Rock Hill, SC.
You got to do a bankrupt on Future Shop pleaseee!!!!
Love bright sun
Can you do an abandoned episode behind the Valley View Center mall in Dallas that have been recently demolished a few months ago, Kane Pixel’s recent horror short film kind of made a lot of people curious about the history behind the mall, maybe interview Kane himself to see how they are able to recreate a CG rendition of the mall?